Cast
- Celia Johnson as Laura Jesson
- Trevor Howard as Dr. Alec Harvey
- Stanley Holloway as Albert Godby
- Joyce Carey as Myrtle Bagot
- Cyril Raymond as Fred Jesson
- Everley Gregg as Dolly Messiter
- Marjorie Mars as Mary Norton
- Margaret Barton as Beryl Walters, Tea Room Assistant
- Alfie Bass as Waiter at the Royal (uncredited)
- Wallace Bosco as Doctor at Bobbie's Accident (uncredited)
- Sydney Bromley as Johnnie, Second Soldier (uncredited)
- Valentine Dyall as Stephen Lynn, Alec's 'Friend' (uncredited)
- Irene Handl as Cellist and Organist (uncredited)
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“There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 8:12.
Referring to “the children of the kingdom ... cast out into outer darkness.” The words are also used in the parable of the talents, in Matthew 25:30, said of the “unprofitable servant.”
“By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.”
—Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948)
“I would rather not see such winds subside, which carry your slow ship away, although they leave me, cast down, on an empty shore, often, with clenched hand, calling you cruel.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)